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Venezuelans Fleeing Home Hit Roadblocks Abroad

Countries hosting thousands of Venezuelans escaping economic disaster back home are enacting stricter rules to stem the flow

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Juan Forero

Aug. 20, 2018 4:33 p.m. ET

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Hundreds of Venezuelans, some of whom walked 900 miles to escape economic disaster back home, saw their journeys abruptly halted this weekend on a frigid, remote border with Ecuador.

Like other Latin American countries hosting thousands of fleeing Venezuelans, Ecuador suddenly erected a new entry barrier on Saturday requiring in this case passports rather than the national I.D. cards they accepted before.